DrunkenBeard Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Hi, Well I guess I should start by saying that I have never made a video before and that I am expected to have one ready for Wednesday. The video is supposed to be a presentation for a team-project I'm working on so it won't include any real footage, it's more an animation with text, pictures and a voice doing the presentation, think of something like this, only we're not selling a product but an idea. I'm wondering what software I should be using to achieve this, something with maybe some templates and where you can easily animate objetcs would be awesome. I have already made the objects I'll be needing and wrote the rough structure of the video so I only need something to animate it. Thanks :) PS : I have no constraints on the software price if it does the job as we're fully sponsored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 Will the imagery be computer generated or will you be doing stop-frame animation (positioning/shooting/assembling stills of figures)? The first requires that you all use the same animation software so you can share meshes, textures etc. Stop-frame can be done using digital still cameras, and assembling the stills (aka: an image sequence) can be assembled in most editors as long as you all agree on a standard frame size. I find image sequences very useful for doing animation because you can load them into Photoshop for detailed touchups etc. Just make sure you have a huge drive and use a format that has an alpha channel (for overlays,) On the cheap software end, Corels VideoStudio editor has a propriatory filetype (*.uis) for dealing with image sequences. Just stick serially numbered images in a folder, define the number range for each sequence and VS writes a named file that when loaded causes the editor to treat each sequence of images as a single video file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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